Musk Acquired Twitter: Part Deux

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Cue pearl clutching over free speech, but there are a few problems with that including France is not the US and that defamation/libel are not protected free speech when it comes to civil suits.
 

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Platform X (formerly Twitter) was forced by an American court to disclose its investors as part of a lawsuit filed by former employees. The list of investors who enabled Elon Musk to take over the platform includes a fund associated with Putin's oligarchs.

The Federal Court in California ordered X to disclose the list of investors. This list contains over a hundred entries, including individuals from the world of finance and show business and a Saudi Arabian royal family member. However, one particular fund drew significant attention: it involves the sons of Russian oligarchs closely associated with Vladimir Putin.
 

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this could explain some of the frenzy

France made public the 12 charges against Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov:
1️⃣Complicity for illegal transactions by organized crime groups;
2️⃣Refusal to provide the authorities with information or documents necessary for criminal investigations;
3️⃣Complicity - Dissemination of porn featuring minors;
4️⃣Complicity - Making it possible for organized groups to share porn featuring minors;
5️⃣Complicity - Acquisition, transport, possession and sale of narcotics;
6️⃣Complicity - Providing tools for cyber attacks;
7️⃣Complicity - Organized fraud;
8️⃣Association of criminals with the intent to commit a crime punishable by 5 years;
9️⃣Money laundering;
1️⃣0️⃣Providing cryptology services aiming to ensure confidentiality without certified declaration;
1️⃣1️⃣Providing a cryptology tool not solely ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration;
1️⃣2️⃣Importing a cryptology tool ensuring authentication or integrity monitoring without prior declaration. These are very serious charges. The fact that the investigation is taking place under JUNALCO (investigating judges, the highest court in France), shows its highest level. tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr…